To find it offensive when people use "blonde" as a derogatory term?

[PeachesMcLean]

I've just watched the opening of some second rate sit com in which the female voiceover referred to a girl as useless and "well, a bit blonde".

My natural hair colour is not a reflection of my intelligence. I find it offensive to suggest that my colour would have any impact on my personality.

Can I rely on you all to avoid perpetuating this type of comment? I don't think I'm being over sensitive. Having said that, TV programme looks crap so maybe it's just that they're stupid.

And what about boobs? I am a brunette with glasses and no boobs - as you can imagine I didn't get the pick of the boys when I was a teenager! My blonde, big breasted friend got them all.

one of these days we're just going to be so politically correct we're going to crawl up our own anuses and die

so true.

now would one read that as though we all have more than one anus or that it is the plural for the group?

do you know I am so snotty that my pedantry nodule is finding it hard to breathe

It's racist. It's like using black as a term of abuse. I have three blonde children. Actually they are robust enough to cope, I'm sure.

"I don't like blonde jokes or references because they are bleeding sexist. And I don't like the way sexism has crept back into society and isn't acknowledged as a problem any more."

Neither do I. I'm not at all PC but just like I never let a taxi driver escape without comment who makes a racist comments the same with sexism. It's not enough to seethe inside, you have to say something, even a token comment.

I'm not blond but I think that saying 'blond' is right up tehre with saying 'typical women'

Where I come from (canada) if you said that to any of my nans, aunts or even my uncles would be shocked and have to say somthing. I sometims think that England is just some years behind equality seeing the way my DP family carries on, as the moms do EVERYTHING and dads work. Defintaly not in this day and age.

dammit Blonde spelling correction

I'm dark and I find it very offensive, this blond thing.

There's a car in my road with a "blonde at the wheel" sticker in the back. I always want to throw a brick at it. (Obviously, I restrain myself!)

If you substitute black you soon see why it's offensive. I don't like old woman phrase being used as a derogatory term either which children do use.

i completely don't think you are being unreasonable, i have red hair and i find it awful when people refer to ginger people as being ugly etc

they do it a lot in heat magazine and i think it's wrong you wouldn't be able to say things like that about a black person so why should you be able to make stareotypes by peoples hair colour

ok fair enough .. I am sure it can be awful and would piss me off if I was a blonde too

but will never agree that racist can be used as the term .. possibly stereotyping

blondes aren't a race last time I checked

yes there should be a special name for this

it's like dicrimination though still isn't it?

tinker...I would love to have red hair...I think it's beautyful and I know a fair few very beautyful red headed people...so, ugly is as stupid stereotyping as dumb blonde...still don't get excited about the dumb blonde thing...but then, like someone else said before...I know I ain't dumb just cos I am blonde!

ds is ginger and he is far more beautiful than anyone elses child in the whole world ever (and I am surely not biased?! )

charlieq said it best at the begining of the thread - lazy stereotyping.

"Aparently I cant go strawberry because of .. wait for it ... my red face."

haaaarr! So brutal.

I would have the same problem. 'Healthy complexion' is the term your colourist was searching for

"try being a brunette with glasses, we're all dull as dishwater"

gingermonkey, I think that will resonate with 80% of mn posters

blonde isn't always great neither...especially the less glam ash coloured variety, like my hair
So, blond can also be as dull as dishwater, as gingermonkey said so apt
never mind eh!

hee hee hee. I must also be extra dull because I have mine coloured even darker (to emphasise the dullness of my personality - just in case anyone was unsure!!! )

rofl